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arXiv:2501.09641 · Physical Review A

Supersolid dipolar phases in planar geometry: Effects of tilted polarization

Daniel Lima, Matheus Grossklags, Vinicius Zampronio, Fabio Cinti, Alejandro Mendoza-Coto

Published Jun 9, 2025• 6 citations

Abstract

The behavior of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates in planar geometries is investigated, focusing on the effects of the polarization orientation. While perpendicular polarization produces a phase diagram with hexagonal, stripes, and honeycomb phases ending at a single critical point, the presence of an in-plane polarization component transforms the critical point into three critical lines, separating two phases at a time and changing radically the appearance of the phase diagram. All transition lines contain first- and second-order regions, while the phase diagram itself shows a resemblance with those displayed by quasi-one-dimensional dipolar systems. Finally, we investigate the effect of introducing an in-plane polarization on the structural properties of the phases and determine the superfluid fraction. Our results show that this process induces an axial deformation on the hexagonal and honeycomb phases, resulting in an anisotropic behavior in the long distance properties of the system like superfluidity. We expect that the rich phenomenology observed provides motivation for new experiments and theoretical works.

DOI: 10.1103/mlfn-114m

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We analyze the ground state of a system of dipolar bosons moving in the

XY

plane and such that their dipolar moments are all aligned in a fixed direction in space. We focus on the general case where the polarization field forms a generic angle $\ensuremath{\alpha}$ with respect to the

Z

axis. We use the path-integral ground-state method to analyze the static properties of the system as both $\ensuremath{\alpha}$ and the density

n

vary over a wide range where the system is stable. We use the maximum of the static structure function as an order parameter to characterize the different phases and the transition lines among them. We find that, in addition to a superfluid gas and a solid phase, the system reaches a stripe phase at large tilting angles that is entirely induced by the anisotropic character of the interaction. We also show that the quantum phase transition from the gas to the stripe phase is of second order and report approximate values for the critical exponents.

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We investigate the crystalline stationary states of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate in a planar trapping geometry. Our focus is on the ground state phase diagram in the thermodynamic limit, where triangular, honeycomb and stripe phases occur. We introduce a rigorous method to quantify the superfluidity of these states by analysing their nonclassical translational inertia, which allows us to identify favourable parameter regimes for observing supersolid ground states. The resulting superfluid fraction is a rank-2 tensor which is isotropic for the triangular and honeycomb states but anisotropic for the stripe case. We develop two simplified theories to approximately describe the ground states, and consider the relationship to roton softening in the uniform ground state. This also allows us to extend the phase diagram to the low density regime.